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Originally posted by rat2306:
So much winning
My head is spinning

Great short poem!

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Originally posted by 12131:
Not that I care one iota about Juneteeth, but not sure what ceasing its recognition means, since its a federal holiday. And DoD is .gov.

And the "Pride" shit, of course, has no place in any federal departments/agencies.

Didn't Trump sign the order/law that Juneteenth became a holiday?

Juneteenth has socialistic origins. I’m guessing this is why Trump ceased recognition of it.

Biden signed the order recognizing it.

According to my FBI agent relative, there’s at least 2 levels of middle management that need to go completely across the board. In some cases 3. They would not be missed. He, and those in his office, are ecstatic to a person with Trump and Patel

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Juneteenth has socialistic origins. I’m guessing this is why Trump ceased recognition of it.

Now if we can just get Festivus and Steak & BJ Day recognized as official holidays, we'll be all set.

I've got poles for both holidays.

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Juneteenth has socialistic origins. I’m guessing this is why Trump ceased recognition of it.

Biden signed the order recognizing it.

Biden didn't sign any "order". He signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in 2021. So, it's actually federal law, and you cannot just "cease" its recognition, if you're in government. How about any of our forum attorneys chiming in on the legality of Hegseth's order?

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Originally posted by DanH:
Didn't Trump sign the order/law that Juneteenth became a holiday?

See above.

Juneteenth is as phony as kwanzaa

This is a very dangerous time right now.

President Trump and his administration have begun disassembling and eliminating precious, essential leftist systems and institutions and many high-level apparatchiks are losing their ability to effect and maintain leftist ideologies, and we're not even two weeks into his term.

Very, very dangerous time. You can bet your bottom dollar that they will stop at nothing.

They already tried twice, and that was before he even got in. Now that he is in the driver's seat...dangerous indeed.

Some humor to close out out January:

https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1885315187760062817

Trump Repeats 100 Percent Tariffs Warning Over De-dollarization

President Donald Trump said he wanted a commitment from BRICS countries that they would not create a new currency to replace the U.S. dollar.

President Donald Trump on Thursday repeated a warning that he will impose 100 percent tariffs on members of the BRICS economic bloc if they attempt to replace the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.
“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and watch, is OVER,” Trump said in a statement on Truth Social. “We are going to require a commitment from these seemingly hostile Countries that they will neither create a new BRICS Currency, nor back any other Currency to replace the mighty U.S. Dollar or, they will face 100% Tariffs, and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful U.S. Economy.”

The original BRICS nations include Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, but the bloc has expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Indonesia became a member earlier this month.

On Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said BRICS members were not talking about setting up a currency but creating joint investment platforms.
“The point is that BRICS is not talking about creating a common currency, nor has it ever done so,” Peskov said. “BRICS is talking about creating new joint investment platforms that would allow joint investments in third countries, mutual investments and so on.”

Speaking to Russia’s TASS news agency in September 2024, Andrey Mikhailishin, head of the task force on financial services of the BRICS Business Council, outlined several projects aimed at creating a new financial system.

These included creating a unit of account (Unit), a platform for international settlements in BRICS digital currencies (Bridge), a payment system (Pay), a settlement depository (Clear), an insurance system (Insurance), and a BRICS rating alliance.

A unit of account could be pegged partly to gold and partly to a basket of BRICS members’ national currencies, Mikhailishin said.

“When you have a unit of account that can be converted into any national currency, it is more convenient for you to hold it, since it is a more liquid instrument,” Mikhailishin said.

In October 2024, the leaders of the BRICS bloc backed overhauling the global financial system and ending the dominance of the U.S. dollar when they met at a BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia.

Among them was Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who touted the creation of a common cross-border payments system that would help BRICS countries trade with each other, therefore bypassing the dollar-dominated global financial system.

Lula said the group’s New Development Bank (NDB)—a multilateral development bank established by BRICS—was designed as an alternative to what he called failing Bretton Woods institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The Brazilian leader said the NDB already had a portfolio of nearly 100 projects, amounting to about $33 billion.

“It was designed to succeed where the Bretton Woods institutions continue to fail,” Lula said. “Rather than offering programmes that impose conditionalities, the NDB finances projects aligned with national priorities.”
Lula added that “now is the time to move forward with creating alternative payment methods for transactions between our countries.”
While there have been signals that BRICS could start a reserve currency, officials appeared to veer away from this goal when they met in October 2024, said Michael Wan, a senior currency analyst at MUFG Research.

“While BRICS has at times talked about creating a new unified BRICS currency, the latest summit in Kazan in October did not put an emphasis on creating a new currency,” Wan stated in a Dec. 2 note. “It’s unclear how 100 percent tariffs on a group of countries that make up 37 percent of global GDP would happen in practice, but serves as a possible preview of tariff diplomacy under Trump 2.0.”

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that he would welcome steps toward the financial integration of BRICS countries while Chinese communist regime leader Xi Jinping encouraged member nations to deepen financial and economic cooperation.

“They can go find another sucker Nation. There is no chance that BRICS will replace the U.S. Dollar in International Trade, or anywhere else, and any Country that tries should say hello to Tariffs, and goodbye to America!” Trump wrote in his latest social media post on the subject.

It is not the first time Trump has threatened BRICS nations with economic consequences. His latest warning is nearly identical to one he issued in November 2024, following the BRICS summit in October 2024 and just weeks after winning the 2024 presidential election.

At the time, Russia said that any U.S. attempt to force countries to use the dollar would backfire.
“More and more countries are switching to the use of national currencies in their trade and foreign economic activities,” a Kremlin spokesperson told reporters in December 2024. “If the U.S. uses force, as they say economic force, to compel countries to use the dollar it will further strengthen the trend of switching to national currencies (in international trade).”

Despite concerns over potential de-dollarization, the U.S. dollar continues to serve as the world’s dominant reserve currency, with that dominance further strengthening of late, in part due to a robust U.S. economy, tighter monetary policy, and heightened geopolitical risks

A study by the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center in 2024 showed the U.S. dollar remains the world’s primary reserve currency, and neither the euro nor the BRICS nations have successfully reduced global reliance on the dollar.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...llarization-5801921?

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President Trump institutes 90 Day freeze on Foreign Aid

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Is there a list somewhere of all the things that have been going on since Trump took office, in one place?

Last 24 hours, best I can do.

President Trump’s the Deep State BLOODBATH in the past 24 hours:

- All federal prosecutors handling January 6th cases fired, computers locked and marched out of their offices by security.

- David Sundberg, the FBI Assistant Director at the helm of the January 6th investigations, has been fired.

- 20 leaders of FBI field offices have been escorted out of FBI buildings around the country

- The 51 intelligence officers who spread misinformation about Hunter Biden's laptop and interfered in elections are now banned from entering federal properties.

- Federal employees are now required to return to the office, with non-compliance leading to termination.

- John Bolton and John Brennan have been permanently banned from government buildings.

- Jarold Harold Rogers has been indicted for compromising U.S. trade secrets to China

- Ban on all use of pronouns in government communications

- All 2 million Feds sent a resignation offer

This purge marks the beginning of the end for the corrupt tyrants in Washington.

11 days in and the swamp has been drained.

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1885480751938081114

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
Juneteenth has socialistic origins. I’m guessing this is why Trump ceased recognition of it.

Now if we can just get Festivus and Steak & BJ Day recognized as official holidays, we'll be all set.

I've got poles for both holidays.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by parabellum:
https://x.com/RealPatrickWebb/.../1885499261342700008

Not that I care one iota about Juneteeth, but not sure what ceasing its recognition means, since its a federal holiday. And DoD is .gov.

And the "Pride" shit, of course, has no place in any federal departments/agencies.

I see no mention of Juneteeth in this Release. Which makes sense. As you say, it's now an officially recognized federal holiday by law.

Release
Immediate Release
Identity Months Dead at DoD
Jan. 31, 2025

Guidance from the Secretary of Defense: "Identity Months Dead at DoD"

Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the Department's warfighting mission. Efforts to divide the force – to put one group ahead of another – erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.

Going forward, DoD Components and Military Departments will not use official resources, to include man-hours, to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American/Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month. Service members and civilians remain permitted to attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours.

Installations, units, and offices are encouraged to celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos. We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service instead of their immutable characteristics.

This guidance is effectively immediately.

https://www.defense.gov/News/R...-months-dead-at-dod/

^^^ Straight from the source. Thanks! I was responding to the Twitter post by some guy named Patrick Webb, which was only partially correct, as it turned out.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Is there a list somewhere of all the things that have been going on since Trump took office, in one place?

Last 24 hours, best I can do.

....

Here's a more comprehensive list:

Trump's First Week In Office: By The Numbers

President Trump is officially back, delivering a truly action-packed first week in office. Here is a breakdown of Trump's incredible accomplishments over his first seven days, as told by the numbers:

34: Minutes Trump has slept since retaking office.

16: Average number of executive orders per minute (EOPM).

7 million: Gay people that Trump has already put into concentration camps.

933: Diet cokes consumed by our new President.

9.9: average attractiveness of Trump cabinet nominees (Hellooooo Tom Homan).

1 billion: People already deported to Mexico.

12: Sudoku puzzles completed by Trump while that L.A. Mayor was babbling.

900,000: Women caught by J.D. Vance not making a baby during their fertile period.

20 million: Delicious menthol cigarettes sold after the ban was lifted.

72: Dude prisoners who could not get their genitals chopped off at taxpayer expense.

2: Pardons received by people who have appeared in Babylon Bee films (also, one buffalo).

1: Gulf of water that got a huge name upgrade.

Zero: Craps given what the media thinks.

What a week -- we can't wait to see what the next seven days hold.

https://babylonbee.com/news/tr...ffice-by-the-numbers

Can we go back to calling it the Department of War or the War Department? Much more Trumpish! You want a war? Yeah I think we have an entire department for that!